NASA produced it by stitching together photos taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover, using technology created by the 360 video team at Facebook.
This is just the beginning of what we can do with virtual reality and 360 video. Pretty amazing.
Scott Porad badly wanted to hire Mike Hansen to work at Rover, a Seattle dog-sitting startup.
Porad, Rover’s chief technology officer, knew just how to get Hansen,
a software developer, to exit the interview process at Google, where he
was being considered for a job that would probably pay much more. He
would tell Hansen about Rover’s thoroughly dog-friendly benefits.
“Mike
is the owner of two dogs that he loves,” Porad said. “He felt like the
purpose of what we were doing was more meaningful for him and
appreciated the fact that he could bring his dogs to work here.”
Today, Hansen works at Rover’s office, which is
crawling with dogs. It’s an homage to the company’s daily work of
connecting pet owners with sitters, but also an attractive recruiting
feature at the growing startup.
